Acknowledgments While I have taken a number of years to synthesize the ideas in this book，they would never have gotten between two covers without the help of friends and associates．Among the fast to be acknowledged are my colleagues，past and present， at The Nailsbia Group who daily monitor events in every coro ner of this society，especially my close associate and friend Jef...(展开全部)

The historic statement by the Russian leader of his beliefs and objectives.

戈尔巴乔夫，还用得着多介绍吗？

Lisa Brooks is professor of English and American studies at Amherst College. She is the author of The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast.

Review Beautifully woven ― Sunday Times Extraordinary city stories ... ambitious and entertaining ... [Taylor] does a fine job of telling the New York story -- Hari Kunzru ― Guardian As gorgeous, cacophonous and shocking as New York itself. Like those great oral historians Studs Terkel and Ronald Blythe, Craig Taylor has the gift of drawing out the most idiosyncratic confidence...(展开全部)

This new version of the Caldecott-winning classic by illustrator David Small and author Judith St. George is updated with current facts and new illustrations to include our forty-second president, George W. Bush. There are now three Georges in the catalog of presidential names, a Bush alongside the presidential family tree, and a new face on the endpaper portraiture. Hil...(展开全部)

朱蒂丝•圣乔治（Judith St.George） 美国著名作家，已出版超过40本书，这些书的题材广泛，包括有神话故事、历史小说、人物传记和儿童绘本等。朱蒂丝出生在新泽西州的韦斯特菲尔德，自小酷爱读书。儿时最喜欢读历史小说。她曾说：“因为童书作者往往根据自己的阅读口味写作，所以当我开始为孩子们写作，我就写历史小说。”为了获取灵感和搜集素材，朱蒂丝常常踏上旅程。她曾沿着刘易斯和克拉克的足迹走过大草原，爬上拉什摩尔山的山顶……她创作的童书曾获得过很多的奖项，如纽约科学院奖、克里斯托弗奖、金风筝奖以及凯迪克奖。代表作有《萨卡加维亚》《用心聆听：西庭•比尔的一生》和《疯狂的房子》等。 大卫•司摩(David Small) 美国著名绘本作家，曾两次获得凯迪克大奖。1945年出生于密西根州的底特律，韦恩州立大学毕业，耶鲁大学艺术硕士。大卫擅长以水彩、墨水与粉彩作...(展开全部)

白修德 Theodore H. White (1915-1986)，美国著名政治记者、历史学家和小说家。1915年出生于波士顿，1938年毕业于哈佛大学，师从费正清，之后受聘《时代周刊》担任驻东亚记者，报道了举世震惊的1942年河南大饥荒，1945年任中国分社社长。这一经历为他的首部著作《中 国的惊雷》（Thunder Out of China，与贾安娜合著）提供了素材。在短期担任《新共和》（The New Republic）杂志编辑期间，白修德编辑出版了《史迪威日记》（The Stilwell Papers）。1948年，他移居欧洲，驻欧洲记者的经历为1953年出版的《浴火重生》（Fire in the Ashes）提供了素材。同年，他回到美国先后担任《记者报》（The Reporter）和科利尔杂志（Collier’s Magazine）的国内记...(展开全部)

The greatest political story ever told—the epic clash between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, as captured in Theodore White's dramatic and groundbreaking chronicle The Making of the President 1960 is the book that revolutionized—even created—modern political journalism. Granted intimate access to all parties involved, Theodore White crafted an almost mythic story of...(展开全部)

Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and Communism. Ira Katznelson, “a towering figure in the study of American and European history” (Cornel West), boldly asserts that, during the 1930s an...(展开全部)